I think Moyes would be more willing to do this as well. Certainly I'd look to bring Roman Dixon back in at minimum. I'd personally also be looking at Omari Benjamin, Sherif, Ebere, Heath, Welch & Onyango.
I think Moyes would be more willing to do this as well. Certainly I'd look to bring Roman Dixon back in at minimum. I'd personally also be looking at Omari Benjamin, Sherif, Ebere, Heath, Welch & Onyango.
I've been discussing in the net about all things Everton for about 33 years now. One of the most obvious things that keeps repeating is how fans are hyped over the youngsters. Every year we apparently have about five players in the youth team who will make the jump to first team next season so that's many positions sorted for free. And once pre-season ends, how many are there? Quite often none. Most of these lads end up couple of divisions down. Some have since moved to management, like Schumacher who was going to be a first-team regular at Everton, apparently. Somehow, every year club releases a bunch of these guys.
If your Academy can produce one first-team player every year, it's doing a good job. Two would be a great year. Every club in the country has tried to sign the best youngsters and there's no way we'd see dozens of U21 players breaking through next season. And we are not the most coveted club for promising players.
Looking at past transfers, some players who should (have) be(en) first team players or sold for a profit, according to fans: Matthew Pennington, Beni Baningime, Luke Garbutt, Kieran Dowell, Brendan Galloway, Tyias Browning, Conor McAleny, John Lundstram, Matty Kennedy, Jose Baxter, John Paul Kissock...
Looking at past transfers, some players who should (have) be(en) first team players or sold for a profit, according to fans: Matthew Pennington, Beni Baningime, Luke Garbutt, Kieran Dowell, Brendan Galloway, Tyias Browning, Conor McAleny, John Lundstram, Matty Kennedy, Jose Baxter, John Paul Kissock...
Is it controversial for me to suggest that I think this is fine?
Add Gana, Alcaraz & Armstrong into it the mix and fill out the rest of the squad in the summer transfer window, starting with the fullbacks and then skip to the forwards before dealing with anywhere else. .
Total players: 12
That leaves us with only 5 HG players also, 2 UA and 4 Non HG players.
I vaguely recall a trained by the club rule, but that might potentially be only valid for CL?
Either way, from having no HG issues previously, it is something we will need to look at with regards recruitment.
The Homegrown Player Rule is an initiative of the English Premier League to allow for more domestic players to be developed from an earlier age in the hope of nurturing more homegrown talent. It forms part of the League's Elite Player Performance Plan. The Premier League proposed a maximum of 17 non-"homegrown" players in each club squad, and the squad size is a maximum of 25. This means that in a full squad of 25 players, there must be at least eight homegrown players.
That makes it pretty clear where we need to add to the squad. We're only 3 short of the HG quota, so I'd say that would be fairly easy to achieve with the players we bring in. Not ideal needing to bring in 13 players to fill the squad, but this is what it is. I'd expect a couple of extensions to be made (Gana and Virginia). I'd expect we would make at least 4 loan signings, and another 6 or 7 to come in on permanent deals. Going to be a busy summer.
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